On 18 Jul 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote: > I really don't have an objection except that it is actually easier to > code this in assembly on x86.
no argument there. It's just that long-term I would like to keep things as portable as possible; I'm hoping the rule can be "if it can be coded in C, then do so". Anyway I am doing the C version now. I plan to put it in src/include/bitops.h thanks Eric! ron